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Literature Review

Literature Review

Goals

Given the goal of designing an app to integrate sustainable shopping, saving, and investing. The goal of the literature review is to find insights about the target audience (Taiwanese college students), understand what kind of sustainable actions are effective, and translate these into specific ideas for app features. In order to keep track more easily, each literature review chapter includes in-context design implications.

The literature review branches out to 5 main directions and maps out relationships sources and the literature map, namely Taiwanese college students, generation-z demographics, sustainability, ecology, ecosystem services, EU legislation, sustainable finance, sustainable investing, savings, circular economy, economics, AI, existing sustainability, software, sustainability–related mobile apps (Apple iOS / Google Android), and web apps related to sustainable shopping, savings, and investing; apps using algorithmic interfaces (AI-based UI), design, UX/UI, service design, sustainable design, speculative design, interaction design, behavior change, nudge.

Example papers from the Literature Review.

Sources

There is currently no single platform that hosts all scientific journals leading me to source scientific papers from

  • ScienceDirect
  • Nature
  • the Lancet
  • Oxford Academic
  • Semantic Scholar
  • JSTor
  • Google search.

AI Usage in Research

I’m a long time AI-assistant user. AI was used for

  • search
  • data comparison
  • data science
  • chart-building

AI was NOT used for writing.